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Nikon: I want it. Phreak: I want it to have my children! Cereal: Yeah, I bet it looks crispy in the dark. Phreak: Yo hit the lights!

This project started as an attempt to complete the work started here, as interesting as these scenes were, they weren't accurate to the movie.

Luckily, someone else decided they also wanted to create more accurate boot screens from the movie based on [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQlZU5oWTQ

I took those videos and with FFMPEG and pngquant converted them to PNGs and wrote Plymouth scripts to use that as boot screens.

CrashOverride

AcidBurn

Lord Nikon

Cereal Killer

Instalation

If you're running Ubuntu you can run the install script ./install.sh

Otherwise you'll need to:

Copy the themes:

sudo cp -rv cerealkiller /usr/share/plymouth/themes
sudo cp -rv lordnikon /usr/share/plymouth/themes
sudo cp -rv acidburn /usr/share/plymouth/themes
sudo cp -rv crashoverride /usr/share/plymouth/themes

Install the themes in Plymouth:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/cerealkiller/cerealkiller.plymouth 107
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/lordnikon/lordnikon.plymouth 108
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/acidburn/acidburn.plymouth 109
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/crashoverride/crashoverride.plymouth 106

Select the theme you want:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth 

And update initramfs: sudo update-initramfs -u

Help the animation is too big/small

We need to figure out which resolution Plymouth is running as. TO make figuring this out easier I've create a theme called 'Resolution'. Install that theme using the commands below, and make note of the number on the screen.

sudo cp -rv resolution /usr/share/plymouth/themes
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/resolution/resolution.plymouth 110
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth 
sudo update-initramfs -u

Once you have that number run the script ./generate.sh and pass it the theme and the number.

For example, if the number was 480 and you want to use the LordNikon theme:

./generate.sh lordnikon 480

Then you can copy and install the theme as above.

Help the animation is too fast

Plymouth runs at 50 frames a second, that might make scenes run too fast. To change the animation speed you edit the script file for the theme you're using and change speed=1 to speed=2, or speed=3, etc. This determines how many frames to linger on a frame.

Help my computer boots too fast!

Your computer boots too fast and you don't get to see the whole animation or at all! We can fix that with a script and a service:

Firstly copy the script below, place it in ~/.wait.sh and make is executable chmod +x ~/.wait.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# From: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1174097/how-to-increse-plymouth-theme-duration

x=1

while [ $x -le 1 ]

do

        echo "Sleeping" | tee -a  /home/$USER/SweetDreams.log

        # ADJUST THIS NUMBER TO SHORTER OR LONGER
        sleep 5

        echo "Waking" | tee -a  /home/$USER/SweetDreams.log

        x=$(( $x + 1 ))

done

Now create a custom systemd service: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/SweetDreams.service

and copy/paste the below in to nano ⚠️ make sure you change the USERNAME on the ExecStart line to the location of the .wait.sh script:

[Unit]
Description=Sweet Dreams
Before=gdm.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/USERNAME/.wait.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then you can test it with sudo systemctl start SweetDreams and enable it sudo systemctl enable SweetDreams.